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Examiner Ka Shan Choy

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 384 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
96%vs 75% art-unit average+21 pts
higher than about 87% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Ka Shan Choy has allowed 367 of 384 decided applications.

367 allowed
Plus 27 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ka Shan Choy's public record in Technology Center 2400 spans one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 96%. This represents the percentage of applications that were either allowed or abandoned among all decided cases in the pooled record. The allowance rate remained constant at 96% across the range of the examined applications. This pooled figure reflects past outcomes across the examiner's decided caseload and does not indicate what will occur in any particular future application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates dispositions across all art units assigned to an examiner. The figures presented describe historical outcomes only—they characterize past performance, not prospects for specific pending or future applications. An aggregate allowance rate reflects the proportion of decided cases (allowed plus abandoned) across the entire caseload and does not function as a prediction. Individual applications may be influenced by claim scope, art cited, amendments, and other case-specific factors.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 art unit

Each section benchmarks this examiner against that art unit's average. Figures are this examiner's own public record within the art unit; the overall rate above pools them.

◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2435
411 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

96%
higher than about 87% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition384 decided applications

367 allowed
Plus 27 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.3mo
disposed 26mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
AU 37
23%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
65%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
77%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
48%

Interview benefit

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

without
92%
+6 pts
with
98%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 215 decided applications with an interview and 169 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ka Shan Choy

  • What is Ka Shan Choy's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 96%, meaning 96% of decided applications were allowed or abandoned. This figure is pooled across all art units and reflects past outcomes only.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me?
    It describes the historical proportion of allowed and abandoned applications relative to all decided cases across the examiner's caseload. It is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How large is the decided-application sample?
    The pooled record covers hundreds of decided applications.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ka Shan Choy has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 2026. The overall allowance rate is total allowed divided by total decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units — not an average of the per-art-unit rates; pending applications are excluded. Figures are rounded for display. Pooled sample: 411 applications.

Rejection rates. Each §-rate is the share of this examiner's applications that drew at least one office-action rejection in which that statutory ground appears; applications with no rejection on record are excluded, and because grounds can co-occur the four do not sum to 100%. The art-unit figure beside each is the unweighted mean of the per-examiner rates across the art unit, published for §101 and §103 only. Beside the overall allowance rate we show a benchmark: for a single-art-unit examiner it is exactly that art unit's average, labeled “art-unit average”; for an examiner spanning several art units it is the “weighted peer average” — the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's application count in each — labeled distinctly because it is a blended figure, not any single art unit's average. Both are built from the same per-art-unit averages the panels show.

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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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